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Global Dawn Chorus Day Project

Publication date: 2020-05-03

Topics: bird, dawn chorus, birdsong, dawn, chorus, nature, field recording, wildlife, birdsong, dawn, dawn chorus, chorus, fieldrecording

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The first Sunday of May is the International Dawn Chorus Day! On the 3rd of May 2020, artists and field recordists in different parts of the world recorded the birdsong in the morning. The recordings were put together in a collage. What you can hear at the same time happened at the same time, but not necessarily in the same place: You can hear owls calling in the Spanish night at almost the same time as Kookaburras in the Australian day. Many thanks to all contributors!

Part 1: 2nd May 2020, 19:55 - 23:30 GMT

Karthic SS, Dunedin, New Zealand (also part of the Reveil7 podcast) https://soundcloud.com/karthicss/dawn-chorus-day-nz-full-recording

Susan Gould, Wallis Lake, New South Wales, Australia

https://soundcloud.com/sue_gould/international-dawn-chorus-day-2020

Tim Duck, Currawang, New South Wales, Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJQFiAPjeec

Not Dawn Choruses, but simultaneous recordings:

Frederic Font, L'ametla de Valles, Barcelona, Espana

https://freesound.org/people/frederic.font/sounds/516565/

Part 3: 3rd May 2020, 3:00 - 6:30 WEST (UTC+1)

Roberto Čopor, Mali Pašman, Croatia (sunrise 5:47 CEST, loc. rec. 5:24-6:10 CEST) - Region Central

Nikos Demetriou, Cyprus (sunrise: 6:21 EEST, local recording time 5:00-8:00 EEST) -Region East

https://freesound.org/people/NikosDemetriou/sounds/518000/

Anders During, Kyrkbytjärn, Falun, Sweden (sunrise 4:46 CEST, loc. rec. 7:00-7:22 CEST)

https://www.xeno-canto.org/553870

Frederic Font, L'ametla de Valles, Barcelona, Spain (sunrise 6:46 CEST, loc. rec. 4:00-7:30 CEST) - Region Atlantic

https://freesound.org/people/frederic.font/sounds/516564/

https://freesound.org/people/frederic.font/sounds/516565/

Ad Hilders, Rosendaal, the Netherlands (sunrise 6:11 CEST, loc. rec. 5:30-6:08 CEST) - Region Central

https://www.xeno-canto.org/553712

Karsten Köhler, Cambridge, England (sunrise 5:25 WEST, loc. rec. 4:16 - 6:30 WEST) - Region England

https://www.xeno-canto.org/554146

Slavek Kwi, County Clare, Ireland (sunrise 5:57 WEST, loc. rec. 4:45-6:52 WEST) - Region Atlantic

Douglas Ligertwood, Mersey Estuary, England (sunrise 5:32 WEST, loc. rec. 4:00-6:30 WEST) - Region England

Tomasz Pizio, Segiet, Poland (sunrise 5:15 CEST, loc. rec. 4:28-6:10 CEST) - Region East

https://soundcloud.com/tomasz-pizio/14-niedziele-w-segiecie-sundays-in-segiet-reveil-2020-international-dawn-chorus-day-edition

Vincent Pourchaire, Lyon-Villeurbanne, France (sunrise 6:25 CEST, loc. rec. 5:30-7:30 CEST) - Region France

Mélia Roger, Ovize, Thel, France (sunrise 6:25 CEST, loc. rec. 5:30-7:00 CEST) - Region France

https://soundcloud.com/m-lia-roger/46105228-4384297-530am-dawn-chorus-day-2020

Stewart Rosell, Castle Espie, County Down, Northern Ireland (sunrise 5:38 WEST, loc. rec. 5:15-5:22; 5:43-5:47 WEST) - Region Atlantic

Lilian Wang, Cambridge, England (sunrise 5:25 WEST, loc. rec. 4:50 / 5:30 WEST) - Region England

The track "Before Sunrise" is a mix of recordings from different regions, panned so that the birds from the East of Europe can be heard on the right, and those from the West on the left earphone/speaker

If you would like to do a stereo mix yourself, you can find the mixed tracks (Before Sunrise) for the European regions, recorded from 5:06 - 5:29 GMST in order of sunrise:

1) East: Cyprus and Poland

2) Central: Croatia and the Netherlands
3) France

4) England

5) Atlantic: Ireland and Spain

Identified Birds include: Acrocephalus scirpaceus, Anas platyrhynchos, Anser Anser, Botaurus stellaris, Branta canadensis, Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Chloris chloris, Columba palumbus, Coloeus monedula, Corvus corone, Corvus Frugilegus, Emberiza schoeniclus, Erithacus rubecula, Gallus gallus dom., Grus grus, Parus major, Passer domesticus, Passer montanus, Rallus Aquaticus, Serinus serinus, Streptopelia decaocto, Sterna hirundo Sturnus vulgaris, Turdus iliacus, Turdus merula, Turdus philomelos - and also Canus Lupus Familiaris